Atwick, East Riding

Description
Atwick, a township, a village, and a parish in the E. R Yorkshire. The village stands on the coast, 2 miles N of Hornsea railway station, and 13 NE of Beverley, and has a post office under Hull; money order and telegraph office, Hornsea. The parish includes also the hamlets of Arran and Skirlington. Population, 298. The land is undergoing encroachment by the sea. The living is a discharged vicarage in the diocese of York ; net value, £109 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is in the Early English style, and was rebuilt in 1876. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. The Fenwick and Burton charities, chiefly for educating and apprenticing boys, has an income of £52, and are under the control of the Charity Commissioners.